A Guide to the New Dashboard – pt 1
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@rosclarke: Agree! In that case we should have little arrows everywhere: drag this, drag that, click to collapse, click to minimize, click if you don’t understand you should click… I think diamondfistwerny’s got the right idea: a link to a short guide to the dashboard.
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Yes, and it would be nice if it was like the Blog announcements – you only have to click on it once.
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I sure hope the arrow is a permanent feature. If WordPress gets as many new bloggers, monthly, as they claim; then it’s necessary. Cuz it’s not clear without fiddling around, that that’s the way to view one’s blog.
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No, there are other ways they could make it clear that it’s a link without leaving the arrow there. Underlining the blog title, for instance. Putting it in a button. Even using a different colour might work.
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Another question: after publishing a post, instead of the write screen going blank, it still contains a copy of the post. Is this intentional? If so, I’d really like to see that changed.
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Another question: after publishing a post, instead of the write screen going blank, it still contains a copy of the post. Is this intentional?
That confused me too, and I don’t understand the advantage of the new routine; but I’ll get used to it.
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Since people are throwing out suggestions, it would be nice to have the option of having sidebar either on the side, or across the top. When it was across the top, I did not need to scroll down my page to find things. It actually takes longer now (to get to things). I’ve seen plenty of other blogging platforms which have this option. MSN Spaces had that way back in 2005, when I was with them.
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On the Dashboard, I just minimize the section I’ve already read to a bar by clicking on it and it brings whatever’s beneath it higher on the page. It makes scrolling nearly obsolete.
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Those are extra steps one would not need to take if navigation were at the top. Extra steps which a non-technophile would never know or even care about, to be quite honest (which is one’s average blogger).
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Correct myself, one would not need to take all those extra steps if option for navigation were at top. I’d go as far as saying that most would switch to horizontal navigation; if they were given that option. Was the average blogger even asked what they prefered or was it just all the forum people providing feedback?
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I don’t even think I’ll grace that with a reply, other than to say you’re welcome to visit the WordPress.com blog and read the announcements and posts about 2.7 which have been there for the past several months.http://en.blog.wordpress.com/ These have appeared as announcements in your Dashboard.
Cheers!
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Funny Teck. Why are we being told that we can’t get rid of navigation bar? Other blogging platforms allow the option of horizontal or vertical navigation. No laser eye tracking done, to the best of my knowledge. They were merely making their platform user-friendly and intuitive :)
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You may think it’s funny but it’s the truth
so I stuck with eye tracking outputs called gaze trails to illustrate the findings.
October 29, 2008
Source > Usability Testing Report: 2.5 and CrazyhorseSo I say again it was average bloggers that did the testing.
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And I can say,its an awkward angle/digital thing! Hence my playstation is witness…Thats why the screen
display doesn’t work for me,but for you! -
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Also here is the announcement on the wp.com blog
about the testing.5.20.08
Source
New York Usability Testing
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